surroundings
The castle Biebrich is the residence of the former princes of Nassau. Prince Georg August Samuel von Nassau-Idstein allowed to in 1701-1703 develop his summer house to a residential small castle. During the subsequent years further to the east read he an identical counterpart establish and from 1708 both components were connected by a middle construction with rotunda. Prince Georg August could win in addition in 1707 Johann Maximilian von Welsch, a baroque overall plan of the castle arrangement with garden and orangery.
Princess Charlotte Amalie von Nassau-Usingen acquired the castle 1729. Their son, prince Carl allowed to complete the construction in 1730-1744 by Friedrich-Joachim stalk as a 3 wing arrangement. With completion in 1744 prince Carl moved the residence from rear Taunus of Usingen to Biebrich to the Rhine. Up to completion of the city castle in Wiesbaden (1840) was the castle Biebrich Main residence of the nassauischen princes and dukes. Then in 1840 to 1866 it served only as a summer residence.
After the Prussian annexation in 1866 the castle remained in the possession of Herzog Adolph von Nassau-Weilburg Nassau-Weilburg, was administered from 1890 by the Luxembourgian finance chamber and was sold in 1934 to the Prussian state. In 1945 the east wing was destroyed and rebuilt only in 1982.
Today the castle is in the possession of the land Hessen and is administered by the Hessian real estate management. It serves as a representative building for receipts of the government and as a registry office. In addition, several authorities are accommodated in the castle, under it the Hessian regional authorities for care of monuments.
Since 1929 the international horse show takes place yearly in Pentecost in the castle park of the castle Biebrich.
